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Corporate tax

Helping you minimise risk and maximise reliefs

We listen to understand your issues and goals. Then we tailor our advice and support to match

Our tax specialists combine their professional expertise with original thinking and swift response to deal with complex compliance issues and rapidly changing regulations.

Our tax experts work closely with our corporate finance team. This ensures new transactions are structured in the most tax efficient way and do not have unintended or adverse tax consequences.

Our large team of specialists support all sizes of business, from small and medium-sized family businesses through to large corporates on a wide range of corporate tax issues. We cover everything from preparing tax returns to negotiating with tax authorities.

Corporate tax

Our innovation and technology team has an exceptional track record of successful claims for research and development (R&D) tax reliefs for our clients, as well as claims under the patent box legislation.

Domestic and international corporate tax has been changing considerably over the past few years. Even solely domestic businesses might be affected by some measure included in the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting measures.

Our comprehensive advice includes:

Capital gains tax
Corporate tax mitigation
Equity reward (share schemes)
Employer solutions
Innovation (R&D tax credits, patent box and EIS/SEIS)
International business tax
Remuneration planning
Reorganisations and reconstructions
SDLT advice
Tax assurance (company compliance obligations and global tax compliance)
Tax compliance
Tax disputes and investigations
Transaction tax, corporate reorganisations and restructuring
Transfer pricing
VAT

Sole traders and partnerships

There have been a large number of technical changes and an ever increasing demand for transparency in the media.

Consequently, senior management is under increasing pressure to be ever more effective to avoid reputational damage.

PKF Francis Clark can help you respond to these demands, by advising you on:

Corporate and business tax compliance
Data and systems effectiveness
Key risks around compliance with the Bribery Act, GDPR, anti-money laundering rules and the Criminal Finances Act
New accounting standards under IFRS and/or GAAP
Quarterly and annual tax provision calculations
Risk management and tax process and controls
Tax accounting

Our approach is to get to understand your business and the way it operates so we can minimise income tax or corporation tax, reduce capital gains tax, extract profits tax-efficiently and make the most of capital allowances.